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Tim Craggs

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CEO at Exciting Instruments Democratising Single Molecule Detection PI - @craggs-lab “A collision of Science and Religion”

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Tim Craggs @timcraggs.bsky.social · Nov 25

Exciting news - we can finally tell y’all!

Super happy to announce the close of our £4 million seed round.

Now the fun bit starts as we will be hiring across all roles - science / engineering / commercial, and scaling our company to deliver single-molecule assays to academic and pharma labs.

Exciting Instruments @ei-science.bsky.social · Nov 25

🚀 Exciting News: £4 Million Investment Secured! 🚀

We're very happy to announce a £4M investment led by Northern Gritstone.

We'll be investing in the team and R&D for our academic and pharma customers.

Follow us for the latest updates as we scale a now VC-backed life science business!

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Tim Craggs @timcraggs.bsky.social · 3d

Love the optics here - see the reflection!

We are welcoming a lot of people to @ei-science.bsky.social getting great data on their own biological systems for prelim data for grants.

It’s nice to have a greta space to welcome them to!

Is there an #smFRET experiment you’d like to try? Ping me here!

The entrance lobby for the new Exciting Instruments facility - with cool 3D logos and reflections in the window an interesting way around!

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Steve Quinn @steve-quinn-lab.bsky.social · 6d

🔬Want to develop a blood test for dementia? A fully funded PhD position is available in our lab to probe and detect single molecules! Join our team @york.ac.uk
! Find out more & apply by 4th Dec:

tinyurl.com/yt36p9tx

@ybri-uoy.bsky.social @ei-science.bsky.social @timcraggs.bsky.social

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Exciting Instruments @ei-science.bsky.social · Oct 2

🚀 Since spinning out in 2021, our journey has been an Exciting one! Thrilled to see our CEO & founder @timcraggs.bsky.social named Entrepreneur of the Month by Insider Magazine. Read Tim’s comment below and the article here 👉 flickread.com/edition/html...

#entrepreneur #singlemolecule #sheffield

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Exciting Instruments @ei-science.bsky.social · Sep 11

Discover how single-molecule fluorescence reveals transient DNA–protein interactions, kinetics and conformational changes, and more. Meet @timcraggs.bsky.social & Paul Wheeler at next week’s events - email [email protected]
to schedule! #biophysics #smfret #fcs

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Exciting Instruments @ei-science.bsky.social · Sep 10

What is single-molecule FRET? Watch
@timcraggs.bsky.social
explain how this technique measures nanometer-scale distances and captures single-molecule conformations - youtu.be/BpCsTVJkQyE #structuralbiology #moleculardynamics #discovery #smFRET

What is single-molecule FRET?

YouTube video by Exciting Instruments

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Exciting Instruments @ei-science.bsky.social · Aug 18

🙌 Excited to share that our CEO @timcraggs.bsky.social has been elected to @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social alongside Robert Best, Tanja Mittag & Kandice Levental. Congrats also to Enrique M. De La Cruz, elected President-elect!

#biophysics #lifescience #biophysicalsociety

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Tim Craggs @timcraggs.bsky.social · Aug 14

Looking forward to my first meeting council meeting at what could probably be my 10th annual meeting (and that only because for a long time I favoured the west coast years…)

Tim Craggs @timcraggs.bsky.social · Aug 12

Holiday time! So good to recharge with family…

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Tim Craggs @timcraggs.bsky.social · Aug 1

Congrats Rita - awesome!

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · Jul 30

🚨Job Alert: My department in UNSW Sydney is recruiting a teaching-only Lecturer in Biophysics. The lecturer will play a key role in the pedagogical development and delivery of courses and practicals in the new undergraduate (BSc) major in #Biophysics that we are launching from 2026. #AcademicBsky 🧪

Lecturer in Biophysics, Education Focused

The incumbent will contribute to undergraduate teaching in Biophysics and across related disciplines within the School of Biomedical Sciences. Some responsibilities include preparing and delivering le...

external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au

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Exciting Instruments @ei-science.bsky.social · Jul 28

🤔 What if we could detect disease from a single molecule before symptoms even appear? This isn’t just innovation. It’s a shift in how we understand, detect, and prevent illness. Molecular insights are unlocking a new era in human health. #innovation #lifescience #biophysics

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Tim Craggs @timcraggs.bsky.social · Jul 27

Come on England! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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Tim Craggs @timcraggs.bsky.social · Jul 22

Come on England!! Always make is wait - but what a result!

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Exciting Instruments @ei-science.bsky.social · Jul 22

Are you a @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social member? Vote in the 2025 election by 01/08! @timcraggs.bsky.social is nominated as Industry Rep. We encourage everyone to vote for this important cause, regardless of who you're voting for 🙂 www.biophysics.org/elections/bp... #biophysics #lifescience

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Exciting Instruments @ei-science.bsky.social · Jul 4

Voting in the KPMG Private Enterprise Tech Innovator in the UK competition is open!

Show Exciting Instruments - and Yorkshire and the North East - your support by voting below 👇

app.sli.do/event/dkwYDn...

#innovation #startups #deeptech #yorkshire #sheffield

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Exciting Instruments @ei-science.bsky.social · Jun 23

Forget what you think you know about single-molecule fluorescence spectrometry instruments!

Introducing the EI-FLEX...

Find out more and request a tech spec > bit.ly/45AqRLv

#singlemolecules #biophysics #smfret #fcs #innovation

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Greg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social · Jun 22

The antihero in my story “Crisis Actors” uses cylindrical mirror anamorphism as an “encryption” technique [he’s not very bright], but I’d never seen it done with 3D objects rather than just flat images until I stumbled on this article about the sculptor Jonty Hurwitz.

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Exciting Instruments @ei-science.bsky.social · Jun 18

🇮🇹 The countdown to #EBSA2025 is on! @timcraggs.bsky.social, Paul Wheeler and @dr-mahmoud.bsky.social will be on hand to discuss all things single molecule! Book a catch up here > meetings-eu1.hubspot.com/pwheeler/ebs...

#EBSA #biophysics #singlemolecule

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Tim Craggs @timcraggs.bsky.social · Jun 18

Looking good!

Tim Craggs @timcraggs.bsky.social · Jun 18

Swag day!

Loving the new branding @ei-science.bsky.social

Great work
@jessicaei.bsky.social

And not on here Dr Paul Wheeler!

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Tim Craggs @timcraggs.bsky.social · Jun 6

Great to show you round Dan!

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Siân Owen @sianowen.bsky.social · Jun 3

The Wadsworth Center is expanding it's research focus on #virology /vector-borne diseases!
www.asmcareerconnections.org/job/research-scientist-5-g-31/78488664/
This is a unicorn assistant prof equivalent position with 12-month hard money salary and no teaching commitments (!)
Reposts appreciated 🙏

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Tim Craggs @timcraggs.bsky.social · May 31

First haircut!

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Emmanuel Margeat @emmanuelmargeat.bsky.social · May 26

Applications are now open for the 4th edition of the “Ecole de Physique des Houches” on Fluorescence Markers for Advanced Microscopies, a WE-Heraeus seminar.
March 15th-20th 2026
Join us to learn everything you wanted to know about Fluorescent Markers for advanced microscopies.

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Tim Craggs @timcraggs.bsky.social · May 20

I am super lucky and very blessed!